Gas-generator.



G. A. KUENZEL.

GAS GENERATOR.

APPLIGATION FILED AUG. 26, 1911.

Patanted Sept. 24,1912.'

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GAS GENERATOR.

APPLIUATION FILED Patented Sept. 24

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U. A. KUENZEL.

GAS GENERATOR.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.26,1911.

Patented Sept. 24, 1912.

1 I n I WITNESSES ATTORNEYS tube, which is held in place by such nozzleand-nipple with no other fastening, and a. new tube then be inserted andsecured by the nipple and nozzle.

-A ll parts of the apparatus are easily accessible for cleaning andrepair.

The apparatus is capable of adaption to boiler furnaces, eitherstationary or eniployed in locomotives and steamships, or to smeltingand metallurgical furnaces or to any furnace where liquid hydrocarbonfuel is employed. As no smoke is generated and no cinders are e ectedfrom the stack, this apparatus is of great'advantage when used in alocomotive boiler furnace and in a steamboat boiler furnace.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a generator for a furnace, a vaporizing retort heated by thefurnace, an atomizer discharging into such retort and having means forsupplying air and liquid fuel under pressure, a chamber heated by thefurnace and having meansfor supplying it with air under pressure, and acomminuting and mixing device having a plurality of restricted passagesand connected to said retort and chamber. I

2. In a gas generator for a furnace, a vaporizing retort, an atomizerdischarging into said retort and having means for supplying .it with oilandair under pressure, a chamber having means for supplying it with airunder pressure, a comminuting and mixing device connected to said'retortand chamber, a super-heating retort connected to the dischargefrom said device, and a distributing retort communicating with saidsupcrheating retort and having burners, said rctorts constructed to besupported in the lire-door opening of a furnace to be heated from thesame and have the burners project into the same.

3. In a gas generator for a .furnace, an atomizer for atomizing andmingling air undr pressure and liquid hydrocarbon, a retort heated bythe furnace and having the atomizer discharging into it to vaporize themixture produced, a chamber having means for supplying air underpressure to it and heated by the furnace, a comininuting and mixingdevice having av phu'ality of restricted passages and connected to thevapor ret rt and air chamber. a superheating re tort coi'umctcd f; hedischarge end of said comminnting nd mixing means and heated by thefurnace, and burners communicating with said last retort.

non-heat conducting material in said space,

said retort structure being adapted'to be supported in the fire-dooropening of a furnace in combination with means for connecting saidchambers with each other.

5. In an apparatus of the character stated, a comminuting and mixingdevice comprising a casing having an inlet and an outlet, a cap at oneend of said casing formed with an annular channel connected to receiveheated oil vapor and air and with a domed chamber havmg a dischargeneck, a domed cap at the opposite end of the casing formed with anannular channel having a. narrow annular slot opening into the interiorof said. cap, a domed and perforated comminuting plate within the cap, aflatperforated mixer plate in the cap, heads at the ends of the casing,tubes connecting the annular channels in the caps, tubes supported attheir ends in the heads, and apipe comm-{Ion from the outlet of thecasing to the domed cap.

6. In an apparatus of the character stated, a casing, heads at theopposed open ends of said casing, tubes having their ends fitted throughsaid heads, tapering nozzles screwed upon the discharge ends of saidtubes and funnel-shaped nipples screwed upon the receiving ends of saidtubes.

7. In an apparatus of the character stated, a casing having a series ofcomminuting and mixing tubes through it, an annular closed. channel atone end of such casing and having an interior annular-and narrow slot,

means for admitting a heated mixture of hydrocarbon vapor and air tosaid channel,

Gno. M. PYLE, J12, Jomv FRAME.

